Yep, she's the last one of the people he got the judgement against who hasn't either paid up or is in the process of paying up (one of her lawyers, since dis-barred, is currently being garnished). And her share is so big now because of interest on the original amount.

Torqueknot:Satanic_Hamster: Kinda curious to why she had the largest bill; the others seem to have had a much larger hand in the false accusations against him.

Interest. Also, she is the only one who isn't a lawyer or can afford a good one.

I'm not as inclined to feel as much disdain for her as I am for Al Sharpton. It's clear she made the story up to cover something up, and it was Sharpton and his scumbag buddies who turned it into what it became. I don't think that was her intention at all.

jake_lex:Torqueknot: Satanic_Hamster: Kinda curious to why she had the largest bill; the others seem to have had a much larger hand in the false accusations against him.

Interest. Also, she is the only one who isn't a lawyer or can afford a good one.

I'm not as inclined to feel as much disdain for her as I am for Al Sharpton. It's clear she made the story up to cover something up, and it was Sharpton and his scumbag buddies who turned it into what it became. I don't think that was her intention at all.

I remember the case quite well, and was not surprised when it came out she had lied. However, I don't recall the media reporting the defamation judgments at all -- unlike their rabid coverage of the original story. In any case, any monies he gets will unlikely make up for losing his job as prosecutor and the crap he had to deal with because she lied so her mama wouldn't whip her arse for whoring around.

Easy to guess, but unable to be sure the type of advice, encoragement, brainwashing that Sharpton and others pushed onto her. She was only 15, but surely old enough to understand wrong from right.It was her that initiated the situation. So ultimetly it was up to her to end the farce that it was. Not that it would have been easy for her to throw off the pressure. Still, it started with her, and she should bare the brunt of the penilties for it.Sharpton and other should do the right thing and admitt their part in fanning the flames, and pitch in to set things right. But they won't, its not in their nature to admitt fault. That would mean they would have to admitt that they are as racist, if not more so, than those they accused

jake_lex:Torqueknot: Satanic_Hamster: Kinda curious to why she had the largest bill; the others seem to have had a much larger hand in the false accusations against him.

Interest. Also, she is the only one who isn't a lawyer or can afford a good one.

I'm not as inclined to feel as much disdain for her as I am for Al Sharpton. It's clear she made the story up to cover something up, and it was Sharpton and his scumbag buddies who turned it into what it became. I don't think that was her intention at all.

Of course, she had the power to end it at any time.

She made up a story that didn't blame anyone specifically - just "some white guys did it". The accusations of specific people didn't happen until the other DB's got involved.

Arcturus72:Because it was only $185k, but thanks to interest and *hand waving* jedi mind tricks, that amount has gone up considerably... And it was back a few years, but thats what I got out of it from RTFA...

Compound interest is a biatch. Actually, it doesn't look like a very high interest rate based on the fact that she owes just over twice the initial amount after, what, 28 years? 3, 3.5-ish percent maybe? (I'm too lazy to do the math.)

Whether he paid the penalty or not, it's a real disgrace that Sharpton continues to enjoy ANY media credibility. He has a show on MSNBC and was on Fox way too many times for my liking. He should be in hiding along with Tawana.

Reminds me of the time I had a cashier working for me at Pat Obriens, she would chew grape Hubba Bubba, three pieces at a time, and then when her jaw got tired, she would put it on her giant fake fingernail, saying the gum still had flavor.

So one day a customer thinks that purple blob in his drink is a big piece of fruit.... Needless to say I had to fire her.

So I get called to the labor board for racism, then I provide the judge with a pic of me and my black grandma in Colombia, and my brown ass standing there, and a video of her with the gum on her thumb, plus all of her reprimands for money missing out of the register.

DownDaRiver:Easy to guess, but unable to be sure the type of advice, encoragement, brainwashing that Sharpton and others pushed onto her. She was only 15, but surely old enough to understand wrong from right.It was her that initiated the situation. So ultimetly it was up to her to end the farce that it was. Not that it would have been easy for her to throw off the pressure. Still, it started with her, and she should bare the brunt of the penilties for it.Sharpton and other should do the right thing and admitt their part in fanning the flames, and pitch in to set things right. But they won't, its not in their nature to admitt fault. That would mean they would have to admitt that they are as racist, if not more so, than those they accused

You guys have weird ideas - like some 15yo girl is gonna stand up to a bunch of pushy money grubbing adults, including her parents who beat her.

Neither Brawley or Sharpton ever served a single day of time for their crimes; to the best of my knowledge they were never even arrested for anything.

The Duke Fake Rape "Victim" also never faced arrest and trial, but she did get busted for murdering a guy some time later. The DA was never arrested, though right to the last he tried to force people he knew were innocent to perjure themselves and admit to lesser "crimes" which they also did not commit----all to save his useless "reputation."

So, this Pagones guy, he was a Lacrosse player at Duke, right? Or was that a different claim of gang rape that everyone believed initially, that turned out to be total crap?

You'd think after the Brawley incident that people would learn that sometimes, it's best to reserve your outrage until there's actual proof of something to be outraged about.

In my career I've taken probably....50 initial reports from people of all genders, races, ages, etc who have alleged sexual abuse. I'd be surprised if half of those turned out to be true. The number of people who claim that a parent is molesting them, or the number of teenage girls who claim to be raped to cover up consenual sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend is STAGGERING. Makes you wonder how somebody can intentionally ruin somebody's life to avoid being grounded for a few months.

fusillade762:Dragonflew: KiwDaWabbit: People who make false rape accusations are a special kind of shiatty.

I believe they should receive the same punishment as an actual rapist.

Rape?

In Texas that's about three years probation. I've witnessed this in court. I think rapists deserve actual punishment. Judge Ogden Bass of my long, untold CSB deserves to be raped for three years straight.

Honest Bender:Good luck with that. $175 a week will pay off that $429,000 in roughly 47 years.

The point of all this is not to make a fortune out of this deal. The point of this is to make her pay for her false accusations. If that's enough to make her work as hard as she can and still earn 75% of what she is paid as a punishment for farking up other people's lives, that's a form of justice.

On the one hand, I fully believe that if you accuse someone of rape, your name should be put out in public along with the name of the accused, and if it can be proven that you maliciously lied about it that your assets should be seized and given to the person you falsely accused, along with a substantial jail sentence.

On the other hand, TFA says that she has a grade-school aged daughter, who had nothing to do with her mother's crimes (and in point of fact hadn't even been thought of when the initial judgment was passed) who is already most likely not living under the greatest conditions to begin with who will now have to suffer for her mother's crimes.

Dude deserves everything he's got coming from a lying, race baiting little biatch who would ruin lives rather than face punishment for her own deeds.

Victim of chronic asskicking abuse, cyclical poverty, lousy education, and racist indoctrination tries to save her ass with a lie, only to watch her own children do without because of it, as the punch line to the cruel joke that life as a young black single mother must be...

On the one hand, I fully believe that if you accuse someone of rape, your name should be put out in public along with the name of the accused, and if it can be proven that you maliciously lied about it that your assets should be seized and given to the person you falsely accused, along with a substantial jail sentence.

On the other hand, TFA says that she has a grade-school aged daughter, who had nothing to do with her mother's crimes (and in point of fact hadn't even been thought of when the initial judgment was passed) who is already most likely not living under the greatest conditions to begin with who will now have to suffer for her mother's crimes.

Truly a no win situation.

Or as you grow into an adult you would apologize for the sins of your youth, because you would realize that you were wrong, and maybe this man whose life you ruined would forgive you. But no, you change your name and get outta town...

No accountability is a huge problem in our nation, from the top to the bottom.

HideAndGoFarkYourself:In my career I've taken probably....50 initial reports from people of all genders, races, ages, etc who have alleged sexual abuse. I'd be surprised if half of those turned out to be true. The number of people who claim that a parent is molesting them, or the number of teenage girls who claim to be raped to cover up consenual sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend is STAGGERING. Makes you wonder how somebody can intentionally ruin somebody's life to avoid being grounded for a few months.

Teenagers generally don't think about whose life they might be ruining when they're that terrified of what their parents will do. Obviously, I'm no parenting expert, but I think it's better to be open and teach your kids actual decision making skills, that decisions have consequences, and that you have to own every single one of your own actions than it is to teach them that certain things are terrible and to just stay away from all of these things or else.

olddinosaur:Neither Brawley or Sharpton ever served a single day of time for their crimes; to the best of my knowledge they were never even arrested for anything.

The Duke Fake Rape "Victim" also never faced arrest and trial, but she did get busted for murdering a guy some time later. The DA was never arrested, though right to the last he tried to force people he knew were innocent to perjure themselves and admit to lesser "crimes" which they also did not commit----all to save his useless "reputation."

noitsnot:DownDaRiver: Easy to guess, but unable to be sure the type of advice, encoragement, brainwashing that Sharpton and others pushed onto her. She was only 15, but surely old enough to understand wrong from right.It was her that initiated the situation. So ultimetly it was up to her to end the farce that it was. Not that it would have been easy for her to throw off the pressure. Still, it started with her, and she should bare the brunt of the penilties for it.Sharpton and other should do the right thing and admitt their part in fanning the flames, and pitch in to set things right. But they won't, its not in their nature to admitt fault. That would mean they would have to admitt that they are as racist, if not more so, than those they accused

You guys have weird ideas - like some 15yo girl is gonna stand up to a bunch of pushy money grubbing adults, including her parents who beat her.

I did state that it wouldn't have been easy for her to throw off the pressure. I'm sure that the pressure was guite tremendous. Tough for anybody to deal with.